THE Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has carried out the reinforcement of the Hadejia132/33KV substation with an additional 60 MVA power transformer as part of efforts to improve power supply in Nigeria.

Relief yesterday, came the way of families of some troops who were displaced from their barrack during the 2002 bomb blast, following the construction of a portion of the barracks by the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army and Dangote Foundation.

IBADAN—The United States of America’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington, has said that the US will continue to work towards the promotion of the unity of Nigeria, where he said the strength of the world’s most populous black nation lies.

A Medical practitioner, Dr Akintayo Akintoba, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that series of medical examinations were conducted on a battered journalist, Mr Yomi Olomofe, when he was contacted after the attack on the newsman.

Almost three months after the Federal Government ordered the reinstatement of a whistleblower who reported the diversion of $229,000 and N800,000 by top officials of Directorate for Technical Cooperation in Africa, DTCA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which supervises the agency, has employed delay tactics to forestall his recall.

CRISIS is brewing in Iwhrekan community, Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, following the purported inauguration of a new executive of the community.

As the annual Nigerian HealthCare Award, NHEA, holds this week, health professionals have called for a robust collaboration between the private and public health sectors that would ensure appropriate implementation of the 2017 health budget now the country is in recession.

SUSPECTED robbers, in the early hours of yesterday, reportedly shot their colleague dead along Ometan Road in Warri South Local Government Area.

About two people have been feared killed with places of worship burnt as Hausa traders and some youths, believed to be local government task force team in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, clashed.

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, is to deploy 25,000 regular and special marshals nationwide for its special patrol during the forthcoming Sallah celebrations.

As Nigerians joined the rest of the World to mark this year’s World Sickle Cell Day, at least 100,000 Nigerian infants die annually due to Sickle Cell Disease, SCD.

THE Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Group of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, PMG-MAN, has urged the Federal government to expedite action on the Expedited Medicines’ Access Programme (E-MAP) proposal between the Federal Ministry of Health and local manufacturers, even as it described the partnership between government and May and Baker, as ground breaking.

Former Governor of Benue State, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, was, yesterday, docked before the Federal High Court in Abuja on a 32-count charge of alleged fraud and money laundering

THE elder brother of Mrs. Uchenna Precious Onwuamadike, wife of the dreaded kidnap kingpin, Mr. Chidumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, Mr. Chukwuemeka Okoye said yesterday that his sister has not visited her village at Awo Oraifite in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State since she got married in 2006.

Seven fake credit cards were found in the pockets of Dammy Krane on 1 June when he was arrested at Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami Dade, Florida.